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Global Citizenship Initiative Awarded to Ruger
Jennifer Prah Ruger, Ph.D., assistant professor of public health in the Global Health Division at the Yale School of Public Health, is one of six recipients of the Global Citizenship Initiative (GCI), the third phase of the Crossing Borders Initiative at The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. The GCI was awarded $390,000 by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and The MacMillan Center has also committed funds to the Initiative. The GCI will span two years, beginning July 1. The goal of the GCI is to bring the emerging forms of global citizenship into the ongoing discussion of the future of genuinely joint research activities between scholars in the North and the South. The focus is on two kinds of citizenship, economic citizenship and political citizenship, under transformation today through the multiple pressures of globalization. “Global health policy and governance are Inextricably linked to globalization,” stated Ruger. “The effectiveness of global health institutions to achieve health objectives such as the provision of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) relies on empirical scrutiny of the impact of these programs on local populations.” This approach highlights the challenges globalization poses to the institutional mission and research programs of the globalizing university and builds on partnerships with scholars in other parts of the world. The core value added by the Initiative is located in fostering joint research with individuals in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The GCI will initially concentrate on four subjects, “Technology, Intellectual Property, and Economic Development,” “Migration and Demography,” “The WTO, Regional Trade and State Sovereignty,” and “Global Health”. Ruger, Co-Director of the Yale/World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion, Policy and Research and a member of The Macmillan Center’s International Affairs Council, will be leading research on global health in collaboration with Nicoli Nattrass, professor of economics at the University of Cape Town. A set of research papers will be produced at the end of the Initiative and presented at an international conference at Yale on the four themes. “In our work, we aim to study the impact of antiretroviral treatment in resource-poor settings in South Africa on individuals’ health and health-seeking behavior, financial status and employment prospects, their social support and standing and the degree of discrimination and stigma they face,” Ruger said. “The study highlights the need to evaluate the application of global health policies in a local context over time.” Other recipients of the Global Citizenship Initiative are Robert Evenson, professor of economics and environmental studies, T.N. Srinivasan, Samuel C. Park, Jr. Professor of economics, and Michael Teitelbaum, Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar at the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies. Gustav Ranis, Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics, and Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History, will share Primary Investigator responsibilities, with the support of Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Henry R. Luce Director of The MacMillan Center. Since 1997, the Crossing Borders Initiative has challenged students and faculty from different parts of the Yale community to revitalize traditional models of international research and education and to develop paradigms better suited to an increasingly globalized environment. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, one of the nation's largest, with assets of more than $7.3 billion, makes grants to address the most serious social and environmental problems facing society. The Foundation concentrates its resources on activities in education, environment, global development, performing arts, and population.
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